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In Hong Kong scoring you add it up: a win starts at a base, then every named pattern and bonus the hand contains adds its own value on top, and the total is what the losers pay — using your table’s numbers, not a universal price list.
The arithmetic is genuinely simple once you see one hand done end to end. Take a hand of four triplets and a pair, one of the triplets being red dragons, won off a discard. On Mahjiku's default sheet:
That is 1 + 6 + 1 = 8. The two lines stack because they describe different things about the same tiles — one is the hand's shape, the other is which tiles — and Hong Kong scoring adds across those axes freely.
What it does not do is count the same thing twice. A hand that is entirely one suit scores Full Flush and not also Half Flush; the bigger reading absorbs the smaller. Those exclusions are the only real subtlety in the count.
Then the total becomes money. Won off a discard, the thrower pays 8 and the other two pay nothing. Self-drawn, all three pay 8 each — so the same tiles move 8 or 24 depending only on where the last tile came from. And on a table using a doubling curve rather than an additive sheet, that 8 is looked up first and the money is larger again.
One last gate: the total has to clear the table minimum of 3. A hand that completes but names nothing — a Chicken Hand, worth just the base — cannot be declared at a table that requires 3.
Last updated: 2026-08-27 · editorially reviewed 2026-08-27.
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